Art Spiegelman Quotes
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.
When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.
I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.
Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.
Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.
It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.
I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.
What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.
I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.
Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.
Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja.
Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …
But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.
